Dear Mario We’ve been friends for almost my entire life. I guess you can say that we grew up together. You’ve been a defining part of some of my earliest memories…you were just…always there. It’s funny but, thinking about it, I simply cannot recall a moment of my life when I didn’t know you. I [...]
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First Impression: Crackdown 2
by David Liao · July 11th, 2010 · 20 CommentsI don’t know how it happened but somehow they messed it up. They managed to take a great formula and instead of adding the polish and gloss it needed, they mutated it and distorted it, almost to the point where it’s unrecognizable. I’m of course talking about Crackdown 2. A game which it’s original design [...]